Last Road Blog

Oct 24, 2004

Mysterious Galaxy. One of the few independent bookstores we did on tour, and always a pleasure to be there. A big crowd that held more familiar faces, some people who were engaged last time, are now getting married. People graduating and making plans for the future. We?re always amazed at the number of people that come back signing after signing and stand in line for hours each time. Several people gave us gifts, but the one that sticks out to us, is the young lady who made a stuffed Jean-Claude penguin to replace some of the Sigmunds that went missing. She made a poofy shirt for him, complete with jeweled collar, and a cross-shaped mark on his chest. She said that the hardest thing to do was find blue buttons for the eyes. There have been other cool gifts that we?ve received at other signings, everything from Jewelry to posters to stuffed animals, t-shirts to buttons and so much else. But seeing a floppy stuffed penguin with long black yarn hair, was just too cool.